Windows 10: I need help loading a VLC file

I need help loading a VLC file

A VLC audio file that previously worked in Windows 8 does not work now in Windows 10/ HOME version. At least I think that is the only difference. Hope you can help. The message is:
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'cdda:///E:/'. Check the log for details.
I don't even see where there is a log. ?

File is so very important. I hope you can help.

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I did update the VLC; same message. How can I tell if the file is corrupted? What could cause that? I had it saved on a disk, on a thumb drive, and on the hard drive, so would all of them be corrupted? I have rebooted, to no avail. I'm sorry I'm not tech savvy...how can I tell what format it is in? One file shows e00, the next d00...if that makes any sense.. but there are a number of files, and none of them work. The audio portion of the VLC player is working when I play a video...

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It would help if you could show us the actual file name and extension.
A screenshot would be great (see below)To post a screenshot please use the Insert Image icon above your post to the left of the video icon

A file with the CDDA file extension is a CD Digital Audio file that stores audio in the AIFF format.

CDDA files are normally seen only when audio files have been ripped from an audio CD that uses the CD Digital Audio specification. This is most often done through the Apple iTunes program with the Audio CD burn option.

The .au file format is not one I'm familiar with Wikipedia - Au file format. Apparently there are 27 possible encoding formats a .au file can use. These two files may be unplayable because they use a different encoding from all your others, perhaps Windows 10 doesn't have a codec for this particular one but Windows 8 did.

I would try FFmpeg, a free open source command line utility that can convert almost any video or audio file to almost any other format. It also comes with a command line player called FFplay. http://ffmpeg.org/

It certainly supports the .au format, as I've just used it to create a .au file. To convert your .au files to .mp3 the command is (subtituting your own file names for 'input' and 'output'):

ffmpeg -i input.au output.mp3

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